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Commit 0909fc2b authored by Paul E. McKenney's avatar Paul E. McKenney
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rcu: Provide polling interfaces for Tiny RCU grace periods



There is a need for a non-blocking polling interface for RCU grace
periods, so this commit supplies start_poll_synchronize_rcu() and
poll_state_synchronize_rcu() for this purpose.  Note that the existing
get_state_synchronize_rcu() may be used if future grace periods are
inevitable (perhaps due to a later call_rcu() invocation).  The new
start_poll_synchronize_rcu() is to be used if future grace periods
might not otherwise happen.  Finally, poll_state_synchronize_rcu()
provides a lockless check for a grace period having elapsed since
the corresponding call to either of the get_state_synchronize_rcu()
or start_poll_synchronize_rcu().

As with get_state_synchronize_rcu(), the return value from either
get_state_synchronize_rcu() or start_poll_synchronize_rcu() is passed in
to a later call to either poll_state_synchronize_rcu() or the existing
(might_sleep) cond_synchronize_rcu().

[ paulmck: Revert cond_synchronize_rcu() to might_sleep() per Frederic Weisbecker feedback. ]
Reviewed-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
parent 7abb18bd
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